LIZABETH PARAVISINI-GEBERT 8 Dwight Street Poughkeepsie, New York 12601 845 471-7998 (Home) 845 264-7541 (Mobile) http://repeatingislands.com/ (blog) http://lizabethparavisinigebert.com/ (website) OFFICE ADDRESS Vassar College, Box 541 Poughkeepsie, New York 12604 845 437-5611 (voice) 845 437-7025 (fax) [email protected] (e-mail) ACADEMIC DEGREES Ph.D. Comparative Literature. New York University (1982). [Diss. "The Novel as Parody of Popular Narrative Forms in the United States and Latin America: 1963-1980"] M.Phil. Comparative Literature. New York University (1981). M.A. Comparative Literature. New York University (1976). B.A. Comparative Literature. Magna cum laude. University of Puerto Rico (1973). TEACHING EXPERIENCE Professor, on the Randolph Distinguished Professor Chair, Multidisciplinary Programs/ Department of Hispanic Studies, Vassar College, 2004- Professor, Department of Hispanic Studies/Program in Africana Studies, Vassar College, 1997-2004. Visiting Professor, Depts. of English and Hispanic Studies, University of Puerto Rico, February 2007. Visiting Professor, Facultad de Humanidades. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spring 2005. Associate Professor, Department of Hispanic Studies, Vassar College, 1991-1997. Associate Professor, Department of Puerto Rican, Caribbean and Latin American Studies, Lehman College (City University of New York), 1987-1991. Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Latin American Studies, City College, Fall 1990. Assistant Professor, Department of Puerto Rican Studies, Lehman College (CUNY), 1982-1986. Lecturer, Department of Puerto Rican Studies, Lehman College (CUNY), 1981-1982. Adjunct Instructor, SEEK Program and Department of English, Queens College (CUNY), 1977-1981. Correctional Education Consortium (Bronx County Jail), 1977-1981. ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE Director, Environmental Studies Program, Vassar College, (2009-2012) Acting Director, Africana Studies Program, Vassar College (2007-2008) Director, Vassar Summer Program in Cusco, Perú (Summer 2007) Director, Vassar-Wesleyan Program in Madrid, Spain (2004-2005, 2012-2013) Director, Latin American and Latino/a Studies Program, Vassar College (1999 to 2002, Acting Director, 2006-2007, Fall 2010) Chair, Department of Hispanic Studies, Vassar College (1995-1998) Chair, Puerto Rican, Caribbean, and Latin American Studies Department, Lehman College (1983-1990) Director, Bilingual Program, Lehman College (1983-1988) 1 AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Caribbean/African Diaspora Literary and Cultural Studies Culture and the Environment in the Caribbean Comparative Literary Theory and Criticism PUBLICATIONS BOOKS (In print or forthcoming): José Martí: A Life. Forthcoming. The Literature of the Caribbean. Westport, CT.: Greenwood Press, 2009. Creole Religious of the Caribbean: An Introduction from Vodou and Santería to Obeah and Espiritismo. With Margarite Fernández Olmos. New York: NYU Press, 2003. 2nd Revised Edition, 2011. Jamaica Kincaid: A Critical Companion. Westport, CT.: Greenwood Press, 1999. Phyllis Shand Allfrey: A Caribbean Life. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1996. BOOKS (In Progress): Extinctions: Colonialism, Biodiversity and the Narratives of the Caribbean. Troubled Sea: Ecology and History in 21st-Century Caribbean Art. Bagasse: Caribbean Art and the Debris of the Plantation. Cuban Transitions: Cultural Transformations in the 21st Century. Video Book project with Colleen Cohen and Leslie Offutt. BOOKS: Editions, Anthologies, Translations, Bibliographies (In print or forthcoming) Teaching the Literatures of the Hispanic Caribbean. New York: MLA, in progress. The Taste of the Forbidden: Stories by José Alcántara Almanzar. Translations of 20 short stories from Spanish. Translations by Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert. Edited with Ivette Romero-Cesareo. In progress. How to Gather the Shadows of the Flowers and Other Stories by Angela Hernández Nuñez. Translations by Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert. Edited with Ivette Romero-Cesareo. Submitted for publication. Love for an Island: The Complete Poems of Phyllis Shand Allfrey. Edition and Introduction by Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert. London: Papillote Press, 2014. Displacements and Transformations in Caribbean Literature and Culture [Essays.] Edited with Ivette Romero-Cesareo. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida, 2009. Cálidos, pérfidos fulgores: cuentos de Jean Rhys. [Spanish translation of Jean Rhys’ Sleep It Off Lady]. Barcelona: Verdecielo Ediciones, 2006. Los fantabulosos vuelos: cuentos de mujeres caribeñas. [Anthology of short stories by Caribbean women]. Edited with Carmen Esteves. Translations by Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert. Barcelona: Verdecielo Ediciones, 2005. It Falls Into Place: Short Stories by Phyllis Shand Allfrey. Selection and introduction by Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert. London: Papillote Press, 2004. [“Notable Books of 2004.” Times Literary Supplement, London] Healing Cultures: Art and Religion as Curative Practices in the Caribbean and Its Diaspora [Essays]. Edited with Margarite Fernández Olmos. New York: Palgrave/St. Martin’s Press, 2001. Women at Sea: Travel Writing and the Margins of Caribbean Discourse [Essays]. Edited with Ivette Romero. New York: Palgrave/St. Martin’s Press, 2001. 2 The Dominican Republic: Literature and Culture. Special issue of Callaloo. Co-edited with Consuelo López Springfield. 23:3 [Summer 2000]. 333pp. Sacred Possessions: Vodou, Santería, Obeah and the Caribbean [Essays]. Edited with Margarite Fernández Olmos. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1997; rpt. 1998, 2000. Phyllis Shand Allfrey’s The Orchid House [New edition with Introduction]. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1996. Remaking a Lost Harmony: Contemporary Fiction from the Hispanic Caribbean. [English translations with introduction]. Edited with Margarite Fernández Olmos. Fredonia, N.Y.: White Pine Press, 1995. 250pp. Die Frau im Sand: Erotische Phantasien von Frauen [German translation of Pleasure in the Word by Susanne Keller]. München: Heyne, 1995. Caribbean Women Novelists: An Annotated Critical Bibliography. With Olga Torres-Seda. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1993. 427pp. Pleasure in the Word: Erotic Writings by Latin American Women. [English translation with introduction]. Edited with Margarite Fernández Olmos. Fredonia, N.Y.: White Pine Press, 1993. 225pp. Paperback Editions: New York: Quality Paperbacks, 1994. 225pp; New York: Plume, 1995. 225pp; New York: NAL/Dutton, 1996. Green Cane and Juicy Flotsam: Short Stories by Caribbean Women. [English translations with introduction]. Edited with Carmen C. Esteves. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1991; rpt. 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998. 273pp. [New York Times and Publisher’s Weekly “Notable Book” for 1991] El placer de la palabra: literatura erótica femenina de América Latina. Edited with Margarite Fernández Olmos. México: Planeta, 1991. 227pp. Luz y sombra de Ana Roqué. [Critical edition.] Río Piedras: Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico/Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, 1991; rpt. 1994, 1996. 197pp. BOOK CHAPTERS: “Endangered Coastal Enclaves: Internal Displacement and Environmental Justice in Cuba’s Trinidad and Colombia’s Cartagena de Indias.” In States of Freedom: Freedom of States. Edited by Michaeline A. Chrichlow. In Progress. “Gade nan mizè-a m tonbe: Vodou Practices and Haiti’s Environmental Catastrophe.” In The Caribbean: Aesthetics, Ecology, Politics. Edited by Michael Niblett et al. Submitted to Palgrave/Macmillan, forthcoming 2014. “Plantation Portraits: Teaching the Hispanic Caribbean through the Arts.” In Re-imagining the Caribbean: Teaching Creole, French and Spanish Caribbean Literatures. Edited by Sandra Cypess and Valérie K. Orlando. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, forthcoming 2014. “Bagasse: Caribbean Art and the Debris of the Plantation.” In Global Ecologies: Postcolonial Approaches to the Environmental Humanities. Edited by Elizabeth DeLoughrey, Jill Didus and Anthony Carrigan. Open Humanities Press, forthcoming 2014. “Introduction” to 2nd ed. of Creole Religions of the Caribbean. In Caribbean Cultural Thought: From Plantation to Diaspora. Edited by Yanique Hume and Aaron Kamugisha. Cave Hill, Barbados: The University of the West Indies, forthcoming 2014. 3 “Porfirio Rubirosa: Masculinity, Race, and the Jet-Setting Latin/o Male” (with Eva Woods-Peyró). In Latin American Icons. Edited by Dianna Nyebilski et al. Nashville: University of Vanderbilt Press, 2013. “Extinctions: Chronicles of Vanishing Fauna in the Colonial and Post-Colonial Caribbean.” In The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism. Edited by Greg Garrard. London and New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. "Helen in Her Yellow Dress: Dressing, Undressing, and Cross-Dressing: Negotiating Gender and Its Discontent (on Derek Walcott, Jamaica Kincaid, and the paintings of Ebony Patterson)." In The Cross-Dressed Caribbean. Edited by Maria Cristina Fumagalli and Benedicte Ledent. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2013. “Deforestation and the Yearning for Lost Landscapes in Caribbean Literatures.” In Postcolonial Ecologies: Literatures of the Environment. Edited by Elizabeth DeLoughrey and George B. Handley. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. “Creole Religions of the Caribbean” (Adapted from Creole Religions of the Caribbean, with Margarite Fernández Olmos). In Hispanic New York: A Sourcebook. Edited by Claudio Remeseira. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011. “Caribbean Utopias and Dystopias: The Emergence of the Environmental Writer and Artist.” In The Natural